New Law to Study ECHO Model

The recently passed Expanding Capacity for Health Outcomes (ECHO) Act instructs the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to study a distance-learning approach that could expand capacity to treat patients in medically underserved regions—Project ECHO. For our latest Q&A, we spoke with Norman Sussman, M.D., a hepatologist who launched Baylor University’s ECHO program in 2014.